Sorry your work never came my way for review, Ian. I specialised pretty much in traditional, which is where my real interest lies -- and the true & only meaning of which term (not altogether unfamiliar as a theme of one or two threads on this very forum from time to time!), was a topic to which, as you may recall, I adverted more than once or twice (or 20 times!) in my monthly Folk Review column &c. — which would perhaps explain why your work didn't feature prominently in my critical œuvre. Colin Irwin & I never really hit it off, thematically -- I hardly knew him socially, think we met once at the first Edinburgh Folk Fest & that was it: I do remember he once actually dedicated an entire MM feature-length column to vehemently denouncing one of those FR ones of mine dealing with the 'what is folk?' bit, which I found intensely flattering at the time, which who wouldn't! [no such thing, as has been occasionally remarked, as bad publicity].

As to Milligan: our mileages clearly differ, as they say. I always got the impression of a fair bit of underlying misanthropic spite in all the goonish banter; but perhaps that was just me, failing to identify the torturedness or the genius...

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